{"id":200821,"date":"2026-05-23T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200821\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:36:13","slug":"erie-county-pushes-work-zone-safety-as-road-projects-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200821\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County pushes work zone safety as road projects move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erie County leaders are highlighting major road projects happening right now, including work along a busy Hamburg route.<\/p>\n

HAMBURG, N.Y. \u2014 Erie County leaders marked the national observance of Infrastructure Week by highlighting ongoing and upcoming road projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those projects include major work on McKinley Parkway in Hamburg, where milling work is currently underway from Southwestern Boulevard to Quinby Drive. The project is one of several included in Erie County\u2019s $50 million road improvement plan for this year.<\/p>\n


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County leaders also talked about the importance of work zone safety for both drivers and road crews.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, there was a person who was killed last year on the thruway during a work zone,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said. “We want to avoid that at all times. We want all of our Department of Public Works employees to come home safely every day.”<\/p>\n

Poloncarz urged motorists to obey posted rules in active work areas.<\/p>\n

“So when you drive in a work zone, follow the rules,” he said. “If it has a reduced speed limit, follow the reduced speed limit and always drive slowly and follow flagger orders.”<\/p>\n

Among the largest county projects scheduled this year will be Phase 2 of Maple Road in Amherst. The $3 million reconstruction project will include new pavement and bridge improvements near Ellicott Creek.<\/p>\n

“The work that we’re doing is it’s not just filling in a pothole,” Poloncarz said last month<\/a>. “It’s actually milling and overlaying, putting new blacktop down. Or the cold recycle in which they take the existing blacktop, basically mix it in with the new version, lay new down. The reconstruction, engineering projects, sometimes they’re going down to the base, so it’s not just the actual top part that you see, and they’re also putting in new sewers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie County leaders are highlighting major road projects happening right now, including work along a busy Hamburg route.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-200821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}